I used to do cold showers but stopped a while back. Maybe I’ll revive the practice.
Eating low carb and as little as you can
I’m curious about this one. You find that eating low carb/less keeps you sharper on days when you sleep very little? I’ve anecdotally noticed that fasting gives me an energy boost on days when I sleep well, although at the cost of making me a bit more jittery, but haven’t noticed the same effects on days when I don’t sleep enough. Is this purely anecdotal or can you share some articles/papers about this?
Sorry, long hiatus from LW so just saw this comment.
I actually found / find eating low carb maximizes my energy levels generally, sleep deprivation or no. Or, more specifically, it avoids the sluggishness / energy dip that often comes after eating a satiating amount of carbs. I know Atkins and other low-carb proponents claim that it provides more / more sustained energy (IIRC, the mechanism of action is avoiding blood sugar swings), but I haven’t looked into it rigorously, TBH.
I am having trouble understanding why one would think I would want to be happy for an arbitrary number of people to live with me.
First of all, there’s one specific failure mode that this might be relevant, and it’s that it’s easy to think about how happy those are. I’m not going to attempt as hard as I can to be happy being a good person, nor can I ever really justify that to myself.
Suppose I am sitting around in bed with my friends, who have no emotional response to certain stimuli or desires. I am also waiting for a sound teacher’s phone number, a restaurant with an unknown family, and the class as a whole. We are waiting on the bus to get somewhere, and the sound teacher decides to put the “real” car behind it by giving us a dollar amount and a fraction of it. I have the feeling later that there is some $10 in that money, but later that $10 is just an outright trick to get me back.
But I don’t even know what it is that I am feeling? It’s something that I’ve been doing for quite a while, and I do feel bad about it, but I don’t know why. I don’t even know why I am feeling that. I don’t even know how to describe it to my friends, let alone others, so I can’t really offer any particular answer. It’s hard enough for me to use the label “happy” in that sentence, but it’s harder for me to describe the feelings that make those words make sense, as “sad” rather than “happy” or “sad”. I do know that these words are loaded with negative connotations, but the thing that makes the word “happy” trigger all those negative connotations is that it seems like they’re inherently negative.
Thanks! These are good recommendations!
I used to do cold showers but stopped a while back. Maybe I’ll revive the practice.
I’m curious about this one. You find that eating low carb/less keeps you sharper on days when you sleep very little? I’ve anecdotally noticed that fasting gives me an energy boost on days when I sleep well, although at the cost of making me a bit more jittery, but haven’t noticed the same effects on days when I don’t sleep enough. Is this purely anecdotal or can you share some articles/papers about this?
Sorry, long hiatus from LW so just saw this comment.
I actually found / find eating low carb maximizes my energy levels generally, sleep deprivation or no. Or, more specifically, it avoids the sluggishness / energy dip that often comes after eating a satiating amount of carbs. I know Atkins and other low-carb proponents claim that it provides more / more sustained energy (IIRC, the mechanism of action is avoiding blood sugar swings), but I haven’t looked into it rigorously, TBH.
I am having trouble understanding why one would think I would want to be happy for an arbitrary number of people to live with me.
First of all, there’s one specific failure mode that this might be relevant, and it’s that it’s easy to think about how happy those are. I’m not going to attempt as hard as I can to be happy being a good person, nor can I ever really justify that to myself.
Suppose I am sitting around in bed with my friends, who have no emotional response to certain stimuli or desires. I am also waiting for a sound teacher’s phone number, a restaurant with an unknown family, and the class as a whole. We are waiting on the bus to get somewhere, and the sound teacher decides to put the “real” car behind it by giving us a dollar amount and a fraction of it. I have the feeling later that there is some $10 in that money, but later that $10 is just an outright trick to get me back.
But I don’t even know what it is that I am feeling? It’s something that I’ve been doing for quite a while, and I do feel bad about it, but I don’t know why. I don’t even know why I am feeling that. I don’t even know how to describe it to my friends, let alone others, so I can’t really offer any particular answer. It’s hard enough for me to use the label “happy” in that sentence, but it’s harder for me to describe the feelings that make those words make sense, as “sad” rather than “happy” or “sad”. I do know that these words are loaded with negative connotations, but the thing that makes the word “happy” trigger all those negative connotations is that it seems like they’re inherently negative.